1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it.

And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw.

it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean.